Daily Scripture Analysis

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Twentieth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time   Readings: Isa 56:1, 6-7; Rom 11:13-15, 29-32; Mt 15:21-28. 1/ Reading I: RSV Isaiah 56:1 Thus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. 6 “And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath, and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant — 7 these I will … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download The Assumption of Virgin Mary into heaven – August 15th   Readings: Rev 11:19a,12:1-6a, 10ab; I Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56. 1/ First Reading: NAB Revelation 11:19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. 12:1 A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Nineteenth Week – OT2 Readings: Eze 16:1-15, 60-63; Mt 19:3-12. Reading 1 (Eze 16:1-15, 60-63): The word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you are of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. As for your birth, the day you were born your navel cord was not cut; you were neither washed with water nor anointed, nor were you rubbed with salt, … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Nineteenth Week – OT2 Readings: Eze 12:1-12; Mt 18:21-19:1. Reading 1 (Eze 12:1-12): God’s temple in heaven was opened, The word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house; they have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house. Now, son of man, during the day while they are looking on, prepare your baggage as though for exile, and again while they are looking on, migrate … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Nineteenth Week – OT2   Readings: Eze 9:1-7, 10:18-22; Mt 18:15-20. 1/ First Reading: RSV Ezekiel 9:1 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, you executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.” 2 And lo, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, every man with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his side. And they went … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Nineteenth Week – OT2   Readings: Eze 2:8-3:4; Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14. 1/ First Reading: NAB Ezekiel 2:8 As for you, son of man, obey me when I speak to you: be not rebellious like this house of rebellion, but open your mouth and eat what I shall give you. 9 It was then I saw a hand stretched out to me, in which was a written scroll 10 which he unrolled before me. It was covered with writing front and back, and written on it was: Lamentation … Read more